30 June 2019
Guess who’s finishing up her third year of grad school 🙄 Went to a conference in Atlanta early this month and presented my poster. I need to remember to always wear shoes that I know are comfy and not shoes that I think will be comfy. I bought these cute flats in April and I assumed they’d be fine, but of course they won’t be. Aside from that, the trip was okay. Anyway I keep telling myself (and you guys) that I’ll post more but I never do. No excuses here but I just keep forgetting 🤷♀️ lol.
Fun asides to leave in your thesis/dissertation:
Passive aggressive thank yous
Inside joke acknowledgements
Jokes in footnotes
Unacknowledged puns
Saucy comments like “as much as researchers would like this to be the case..”
Random trivia in footnotes
Unnecessary appendices (songs listened to while writing, lists of weird historical events, etc)
Citations of yourself, because goals
Unnecessary citations of your academic friends
Song lyric quotes in italics as chapter openings
What else you got? Looking to spice this document up.
The award for cutest protein goes to:
Kinesine. (anterograde microtubuli-associated transport protein)
When your head hits the pillow tonight, remind yourself that you’ve done a good job. You are headed down your path at your own pace, and with every obstacle you are trying your utmost best. Be patient with yourself, and remember that big things are achieved not all at once, but one day at a time.
The essence of grad school is crossing one item off your to-do list, then adding five more
80% of science is just waiting for things to happen…
On a scale from mild inconvenience to destroy a mass spectrometer, what’s the worst that can happen?
10 October 2018
This was during one of my last lab meeting presentations. the sword made me feel like my research is cool 🤔
So btw, guess who’s a third year now! I mean I feel like my research isn’t going anywhere but we’re going strong guys! 🙇♀️
Breaking News:
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2018 has been awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”.
Donna Strickland is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 55 years.
Nobel Laureate Arthur Ashkin has been awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.”
Nobel Laureates Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland have been awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.”
Article here with more information about their work:
Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland win Nobel physics prize